Man who threatened to blow up GOP Senate candidate’s office donated to Dem opponent A Wisconsin man who has been charged with making a bomb threat against the office of a Republican Senate candidate has donated to the campaign of the candidate’s Democratic opponent. Joseph ... 04/28/2024 - 6:28 am | View Link
Former GOP rep who voted to impeach Trump drops Michigan Senate bid Meijer, who voted to impeach former President Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, launched a bid for the Senate in November to replace Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.). He was one of ... 04/26/2024 - 1:02 pm | View Link
Tennessee voucher negotiations ongoing as Senate GOP leaders say they have the votes Bill Lee’s school voucher legislation may be dead for the year, House and Senate leadership all say that negotiations on the bill are ongoing — and GOP Senators say they have the votes to pass ... 04/19/2024 - 12:03 am | View Link
Mayorkas Impeachment Dies in Senate, Thwarting GOP Attack Republican-led efforts to oust Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met an anticlimactic but predictable fate Wednesday as the Senate swiftly sidelined charges against him. The Senate ... 04/17/2024 - 11:07 am | View Link
Democrat-led Senate dismisses GOP push to impeach Homeland Security Sec. Mayorkas Alejandro Mayorkas, the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted along party lines to dismiss the charges forwarded by U.S. House of Representatives Republicans who wanted to remove him ... 04/17/2024 - 5:53 am | View Link
“The presidential election may come down to a city in the Midwestern prairie that is home to Warren Buffett — a prospect that is raising hopes among some Democrats that the once-prolific political donor will come off the sidelines to try to power President Joe Biden to reelection,” Bloomberg reports.
“Back in 2016, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“The U. S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports.
“Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U. S. foreign policy: It distracts U.
Nevada Independent: “The lawsuit alleges that the four-day period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received violates federal law because it does not conform to the Election Day deadline established by the federal government.”
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.